Stella's sitting on the last bench.
Every other person in the classroom is chatting with one another.
For the first time in years, she's alone and silent. She doesn't even know what to do what to say. She was better off without attending classes. Without seeing Zach with Madison. She wanted to confirm if Madison was actually his ex or not.
But she forgets her words in front of Zach. His mesmerizing eyes still catches her breath. Makes her believe that she's only his.
"You're thinking about me?" Someone asked from her right. She turned but couldn't reply. "Say that you want me every single day Stella." Zach said pulling her chin up with his index finger.
"Don't touch me with those filthy hands Zach!" Stella said while pushing his hands away. "Mine are filthy? So tell me, what about Brandon? Are his hands cleaner than mine, with murdering people?" Zach asked with a questioning look.
He saw Stella that day. Stella stands up and slaps him, "This is for cheating on me. Also for stalking me."
Zach just looked at her with calm face. "I know you're angry my lady, maybe we should talk some other day?" He said while sitting and making his face down to her as she was looking down & groaning in anger.
"Who's Madison to you?"
Zach doesn't answer this question.
"Is Madison your ex?" Zach looked at her shocked.
How did she know?
Stella was sure by looking at his face that he doesn't wanna answer it.
"Answer me if you ever loved me." Stella broke into tears.
" I, I'm sor..."
"Are you apologizing to her for loving me? Come on Zach. It's not like she loves only you. She has millions of boys in her heart. She loved Niall more than you. And you loved me. We are equal, so why are you saying that you're sorry." Madison keeps her hands on Zach's shoulder from behind and cuts him off. Stella is thinking of the time she used to spend with Madison. She trusted her with all her secrets and now she's just exploding those to Zach.
She never wanted Zach to know how she felt about his best friend. Cebause that may make problems between them. And Stella liked their friendship, if they become like enemies she would never be able to forgive herself.
"He's more like my brother now Madison." Stella defended herself & Zach interrupted, "You never told me about that either Stella. Why?"
Stella becomes silent again.
"Answer God dammit!" Zach shouts and the whole class looks at them.
"Come with me." Zach holds Stella's hand and make her almost run through the classroom to halls to cafeteria to outside the college. Madison follows them running.
"I'm hurting Zach... stop!" Stella said while pushing herself away from him.
Zach got hurt by her words. He never thought she'd be hurting the girl whom she wanted to be happy forever.
"I'm sorry, let me see." Zach goes closer to Stella and looks at Stella's hand.
He almost stopped the blood circulation of her hands. He shouldn't have hold her hand that tight after all.
Zach screamed in anger.
"This is all my fault. You're just hurting for me. I'm so sorry Stella... I just wanted you to be with me but I.. I ended up making you leaving me. I shouldn't have kissed her but some part of me wanted to feel her lips again. I.."
Zach indirectly told her that Madison was actually his ex. He didn't finished the sentence because he knew words aren't going to heal her. So he kept everything inside of him.
Stella removed all those tears from her eyes and cheeks with the back of her hands. While Madison just looked at her with a awkward face.
"Madison, please If you don't mind, leave us alone for a while." Zach made sure Stella shouldn't feel embarrassed to cry even though she hates crying in front of anyone.
Madison crossed the road and went into the woods for a walk silently with jealousy.
"Stella... " Zach holds her hand with his two hands and kisses.
"I hate you Zach. I f**king hate you!!!" Saying so Stella went running away after snatching her bag from Zach.
Zach turned his head opposite from Stella in anger. His anger is on himself. For the way he made Stella feel. Exactly the way how Madison made him feel.
He knows how much it hurts. He remembers himself crying under the shower. Under the starry night. Under water even. Bursting his ears into saddest musics. And sometimes cheering himself up with funny videos even though he wanted to kill himself. It's more than sadness itself.
Stella doesn't go back to college. w6here she goes she doesn't even know.
She's walking through a road which is literally silent. A different type of silent that is making her scare. She felt like someone was following her.
"Who's there?" She said turning around as she just heard some footsteps.
She stared at the empty road for sometime then started walking again.
She feels lonely but again she felt she had a company in this dangerous road.
"I know someone's there show yourself!"
No answer.
Not a single sound.
"Damn It!" She turns straight again and tried to scream but a boy hold her mouth with his hands.
"Shh don't scream it's me."
Her eyes had got widened but again it came back to normal.
"Billy, why the hell were you following me?"
"I just wanted to know if what you said 5 years earlier was true or not." He chuckled.
"Also this road is the main road of gangsters den. We shouldn't be here." He tried to scare her more with some truth.
Stella ignored that & asked "What did I say?" "That you're not afraid of anything or anyone. But you just got afraid of some footsteps, hahaha" He started laughing.
"Yeah very funny, now come on get up." Stella helped him get up as he literally died on the road laughing at her condition.
Remembering how she told him after scaring him by pretending to be a ghost at the Halloween.
She looked exactly like the Annabelle.
He ran away to save his life but she also kept running after him which made him scared to death. After he got to know it was Stella he made a vow to take a revenge some day. A funnier revenge of course!
She laughed at Billy's condition that day, "You're such a scaredy cat Billy! Hahaha...!"
He even warned her saying, "I'll make you scare as well. You'll see you're like me, a scaredy cat as well."
"I'm not scared of anything so you won't see me trembling in fear like you." She said while crossing her hands over her chest.
"We'll see." Billy said with confidence.
"Oh yes we will." Stella said with more confidence.
"Do you remember those Hahaha..." Billy couldn't just stop laughing. You're just like me, a Scaredy Cat!"
Now both of them laughed at their own words they just remembered from the past.
After laughing for a whole eternity Stella came back to normal, "I miss those days Billy. I was just happy back then."
"And I missed you more than anything after we changed our home." Billy stopped laughing at last.
"Let's go at some cafe and talk, what say?" Stella proposed.
"As you want, let's go." Billy agreed.